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time because he “just wanted to get out and ride.” A dirt racer during the summer who had been practicing on his own, he said, “You’ve got to learn to get forward, pitch the bike sideways and get on the throttle early.” Christian Johnson, a racer who had turned Pro a few years earlier, told me, like many of the riders I spoke with, he had started rac- ing before he reached his teens. Both a dirt and ice racer, Christian said he felt more confident on the ice because he could hold the bike wide open on the consistent sur- face. A summer and winter Pro rider for more than ten years, Brian Franzen from Edgar had formerly raced snowmobiles. “This is just for fun,” he said. “You don’t win anything; you try racing for money, you’ll go broke.” When I mentioned I didn’t figure on seeing any BMWs, he said. “Bring one out, we’ll ride anything!” After a short rules meeting with the rid-
ers, bikes in the first heat were edged up to a long bungee stretched across the starting line. With little delay, the bungee dropped and the bikes blasted off onto a plowed, half-mile track that offered hairpin right- and left-handers and straights where riders hit 80 miles an hour or more. I didn’t see any riders go down all day, even as they tilted their bikes and disappeared into little blizzards of ice shards in the corners, one foot stretched out to skim the track. The air was filled with the sound of red-
lined four-strokes and the cheers from fans and families, but it didn’t seem to matter to most who won or lost. I had the feeling the enthusiasm for motorcycle ice racing has less to do with purses and trophies and more to do with shaking a triumphant fist in the face of four or five months of short gray days, life-threatening wind chills, and hours spent toiling behind a snow shovel. Yup, winter can be tough up here, but there’s something I find truly heartening about the ways we come up with to defy it.
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